WOUNDED MARINE WITH COMRADE STANDING OVER HIM DEFENDING HIM WITH LEVELLED RIFLE AND BAYONET. SURMOUNTS PEDESTAL WHICH HAS BRONZE PLAQUES ON IT
6 OCLOCK FACE: CORPS BADGE, BRONZE PLAQUE WITH INSCRIPTION
9 AND 3 OCLOCK FACE: RELIEF DEPICTION OF ACTION AT GRASPAN AND REPULSE OF CHINESE ATTACK ON PEKING LEGATION
CARVED DOLPHINS ON EACH CORNER SYMBOLISE NAVAL SERVICE

Inscription

6 O'CLOCK FACE: ERECTED / BY THE OFFICERS AND MEN / OF THE / ROYAL MARINES / IN MEMORY OF THEIR / COMRADES WHO WERE KILLED IN ACTION / OR DIED OF WOUNDS OR DISEASE IN / SOUTH AFRICA AND CHINA / 1899 - 1900
12 O'CLOCK: SOUTH AFRICA CHINA / (NAMES)
BRONZE RING ON GROUND AROUND MEMORIAL: THIS MEMORIAL WAS REDEDICATED IN OCTOBER 2000 IN HONOUR OF ALL ROYAL MARINES WHO HAVE SERVED THEIR COUNTRY BY LAND AND SEA AND WHO ARE FOREVER REMEMBERED BY THEIR FRIENDS

LONDON STATUES: A GUIDE TO LONDONS OUTDOOR STATUES AND SCULPTURE by BYRON, A P 356 Source: Image Library NIWM Published:CONSTABLE 1981 LONDON

The National Archives WORKS/20/138 AND WORKS/20/239

For Remembrance and in Honour of Those Who Lost Their Lives in the South African War 1899-1902 by Gildea, James P 125 Published:Eyre and Spottiswoode 1911 London

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